Puberty blockers help temporarily suppress puberty. Transgender and gender-diverse children might use these to stop certain changes to their bodies.
Decades of data support the use and safety of puberty-pausing medications, which give transgender adolescents and their families time to weigh important medical decisions
But while treating gender incongruence with puberty blockers is a relatively recent application, these drugs have been used onchildrensince the 1980s for slowing down puberty if it happens too early or too quickly. Currently, there's sufficient evidence to show the drugs are safe and well-tolera...
Doctors can decide if children are able to consent to puberty blockers, say judgesIt is for doctors to decide whether a child under 16 can give informed consent to treatment with puberty blockers, the Court of Appeal has ruled.1Clare Dyer...
Though Carter wrote in his ruling that “the potential harms from these interventions are serious,” puberty blockers are fully reversible. Not only that, buta study published in The Lancetfound that 98% of those on puberty blockers went on hormo...
Children under 16 cannot consent to the use of puberty blockers for gender dysphoria unless they can understand the immediate and long term consequences of the treatment, which is unlikely, the High Court in London has ruled.1 Even for over 16s, clinicians might well want to seek court ...